Bethpage-Newsgram_1941-05-09

              Grumman Nine Wins Opening Game
SEE PAGE FOUR
NEW Vol. 1. No. 22 FRIDAY, MAY 9, 194T Price Five Cents
Lang Tops
Commissione
D e f e a t s John W . Klug
By M a r g i n of 58 V o t es
A margin of 58 votes spelled
victory for A. A. Lang, Jr., can-didate
for re-election as Water
Commissioner of the Central
Park Water District, in an elec-tion
held at the offices of the
Bethpage Water District here
Thursday night. May 1st,
Mr. Lang was re-elected by the
taxpayers for a term of three
years.
339 ballots were cast by voters,
five of these were declared void.
The vote w^as 196 to 138.
Lang has served nine years as
Water Commissioner and has a
fine record.
In an interview following the
election Mr. Lang said, "The
tax rate has been lowered every
year and it will be my policy to
continue this effort".
John W. Klug, pi'esident of the
Bethpage Board of Education,
ran opposition 1o Lang in his
run for re-election as water com-missioner.
Klug stated in his bid
for water commission that the
water rates were too high and
should be lowered. He congrat-ulated
Mr. Lang after the vic-tory.
This will bo the fourth term
A. A. Lang has served.
Elmer Brooks, Councilman
John R. Brandt and Edwin Mc-
Queen, Oyster Bay Town Clerk,
officiated at the election.
Nassau '^tes
The crabs. Oysters, Lobsters
and Shiimp all live appropriately
enough near Seaford and Ihey
are not crustaceans but ladies
who are members of the "Sea-ford
Momma Bowling League"
of Freeport. They evidently have
time to spare. (Joke)
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The "Queen of Tin Pan Alley"
lives in Lawrence and her name
is Gladys Shelley and she is
author of at least 67 liit tunes
last year and she is pretty too.
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It's back to the Indian again
over in Freeport where the land
fight is going on. Indian grants
are being resurrected to invali-date
royal ones. By the way,
does anyone know what became
of that twenty-four bucks paid
for Manhattan?
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Sign on a house in Seacliff:
"Suitsus".
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State Broadens
Civil Service Act
July 1, 1942 is the extension
date of civil service regulations,
to all local governments of Nas-sau
County, in which they do not
already apply, by a bill signed
on May 1, 1941, by Governor
Lehman. The purpose of which
is to extend the scope of tlie
present county civil sei'vice com-mission
to include all such ad-ditional
governmental units.
Even though the measure lists
three optional forms of civil ser-vice
~administration for J the 38
counties heretofore not affected
by civil service, only the pro-vision
lOr a county civil service
board is applicable to Nassau
because such a board already is
functioning hero, Harry J. Welle-bil,
secretary of the Nassau
County Village Officials associ-ation,
explained. While the board
has been in operation for some
time it has nor been mandatory,
I)reviously, for all municipalities
of Nassau to come under civil
service as now is provided by
the new state law.
The civil service commission
form of administration has been
backed by the officials' associa-tion
here, although at one time
it voiced some sentiment for
municipal commissions.
The new measure was recom-mended
by a joint legislative
committee, w h i c h conducted
statewide hearings in a two-year
survey of the feasibility of ex-tending
civil service to all local
government units. Thirty-eight
counties heretofore not affected
by civil service come under the
new statute, Nathan Sobel, coun-sel
to liie governor, said.
Leliman's approval coincided
v/ith his signing of two other
civil service bills, one of which
continues until December 1, 1945,
the standardization board to clas-sify
public jobs and salaries.
The other permits penalizing
civil service employees found
guilty of incompetency or mis-conduct
by reprimand, maximum
fine of $50, two months sus-pension
without pay, demotion
in grade or dismissal from ser-vice.
Existing law required ex-ecutives
either to ignore offenses
or dismiss the offender.
Defense Sfamp Sa!e
Draws Big Response
Plarry Stolz, Postm.aster, Beth-page,
reports that he has had a
nice response on the part of the
residents of the community to-ward
the sale of defense stamps
offered by the Government to
aid the Defense Program, and at
the same time give the purchaser
an opportunity to invest small
sums whenever the opportunity
presents itself.
Hold United
Choral Concert
The Hicksville Choral Society
and the Women's Choral of the
Colony Club of Farmingdale, held
their 18th annual joint concert
in the Garden City Hotel last
IMonday evening. Among the
group were the INIesdames Ed-ward
Sengstacken, IMiidred Mor-selli,
Fred Benkert and Charles
Keuchler of Bethpage. The
Choral Societies were under the
direction of I\Irs. Ehvood A. Cur-tis
of Hicksville.
!\Iiss Carolyn Case Lush was
guest violinist and was accom-panied
by Miss Helen Borgwald.
The Chorals v/ere accompanied
by Mrs. August Ihlenburg of
Farmingdale and by Mr. Otto
Ilettberg of Hicksville.
During the evening the "Ste-phen
Foster Choral Fantasy" and
the closing "Patriotic Choral
Fantasy", both arranged by ]Mil-ton
and Archie Jacobs, were
sung. I\!r. Milton Jacobs, an em-inent
musician, accompanied both
selections on the piano.
Masons To Horror
Vamps To install
Traffic Signals
At the meeting of the Bethpage board of fire com-missic-
ners here last Friday night plans for the installation
of tv.'o traffic signals in front of the fire house on Stewart
Avenue were discussed.
Air Corps Needs
More Inspectors
Shorfaqe of Wei!
Trained Men
The Emera Chapter of Hicks-ville
will hold a regular meeting
in the Hicksville Masonic Temple,
Wednesday evening. May 14th.
During the meeting, which is to
celebrate Mother's Day, the Tri-angle
Girls will put on a cere-mony.
The Amaranth will meet in the
Masonic Temple of Hicksville,
Thursday evening May 22nd.
The Masons will entertain the
ladies on "Ladies Night" next
Tuesday evening in the Masonic
Temple.
No small part of the work of
securing faster, more powerful,
and safer airplanes and equip-ment
is the inspection of air-craft
materials. Parachutes, gog-gles,
camera lenses, instruments,
and all other equipment must be
inspected by competent well-trained
men.
Through an examination an-nounced
some time ago, the Civil
Service Commission has been
seeking men for procurement in-spector
positions in the Air Corps
of the War Department. The
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Grumman To Take
Will Give Employment
To Men Finishing
Course At Freeport
The Grumman Aircraft En-gineering
corporation of Beth-page
will absorb every one of the
50 men who will graduate every
two weeks from now until June 1
from tlie New York state school
of aviation at Freeport, Paul
Gilbert, ijersonnel director of tlie
fii'm announced today. After
June 1, he said, 50 men will bo
graduated from the 10-week
course every week.
Gilbert reported that the com-pany
is prepared to use 600 men
a month from the training
schools until it has sufficient
men to keep pace with its pro-duction
schedule. He added that
if trainees are not available from
Long Island, tliey will be sought
in other areas.
Any able-bodied man from 18
years of age up is eligible to en-roll
in the school. The only re-quirement
beyond good healtli
is some mechanical experience
or mechanical aptitude, it was
staled.
The first class of graduates
of the school, 100 men who were
inmiediately given employment
at the Grumman plant, was grad-uated
from the Freeport school
on Sunrise liighway, Friday
-nigiit. Among the speakers who
addressed the group were County
Executive J. Russel Sprague,
Samuel Cramblett, director of
the Long Island training schools,
and John H. Decker, a member
of the graduating class.
The board made application for
permission to install these sig-nals
to the Nassau County board
of supervisors Monday, May 5th
for their approval.
The reason, it is stated, for
this action is to enable the fire-men
to halt traffic while going
to and from fires. These lights
would make it possible for the
vamps to get their equipment in
and out of the fire house with-out
the danger of an accident
or being delayed in a traffic
jam.
The board had to obtain the
approval of the Nasasu County
board of supervisors as Stewart
Avenue is a county road.
It was learned that the plans
met with the approval of the
county board at their meeting
Monday.
The fire dapartment plans to
install these lights as soon as pos-sible
and maintain service of
them.
P.-T. Ac Postpones '
Regular Meeting
il'. n-r
The Bethpage Parent-Teacher
Association meeting, which was
to be held Thursday, May 8th,
has been postponed due to the
demand for the use of the school
auditorium for various activities
during tills time.
After a meeting of the exec-utive
committee, Mrs. Leslie
Johnson, president, will announce
tlie new date.
W.P.A. Concert
Set For May 18th
Tlie Nassau-Suffolk W.P.A,
Sympliony Orcliestra will be
heard in a concert of patriotic
music at the "I am An Ameri-can"
Day Rally to be held at
the birthpiace-of tlie famed Walt
Whitman on Sunday afternoon,
May IStii, sponsored by the
Helios Foundation, Bronislawa
DuBrissac, President and Foun-der.
Numerous iiatriotic and civ-ic
organizations will participate
in the joint observation of the
day antl tlie anniversary of the
birth of Wliitman.
Writers Finish
Babylon Book
Final reasearch is being com-pleted
on "The Town of Babylon,
N. Y.; a Public Guide", a pro-jected
book of the Long Island
Histories series of the L. I. Unit,
New York State W.P.A. Writer's
Project. The Town of Babylon
sponsors this book.
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